Stephen R. Covey Quotes

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

~ Stephen R. Covey

They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.

~ Stephen R. Covey

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

~ Stephen R. Covey

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education

~ Stephen R. Covey

The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

~ Stephen R. Covey

people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

~ Stephen R. Covey

All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardships, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardships. When you focus on your own responsibility, you become relatively unconcerned with other peoples stewardships...The highest form of influence is to be a model, not a critic; a light, not a judge.

~ Stephen R. Covey

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

~ Stephen R. Covey

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

~ Stephen R. Covey

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

~ Stephen R. Covey

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.

~ Stephen R. Covey

churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

~ Stephen R. Covey

I believe that days one and two for most of us involve getting more control over the body-such as getting to be early, arising early, exercising regularly, eating in moderation, staying at our work when necessary even when tired. Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can’t control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?

~ Stephen R. Covey

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

~ Stephen R. Covey

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

~ Stephen R. Covey

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

~ Stephen R. Covey

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

~ Stephen R. Covey

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

~ Stephen R. Covey

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday

~ Stephen R. Covey

Where westand depends on where we sit.

~ Stephen R. Covey

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level ofthinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

~ Stephen R. Covey

to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

~ Stephen R. Covey

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

~ Stephen R. Covey

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Management works in the system,Leadership works on the system

~ Stephen R. Covey

He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

~ Stephen R. Covey

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.

~ Stephen R. Covey

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

~ Stephen R. Covey

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

~ Stephen R. Covey